quote:Blake griffin has very few basketball skills but he's top 2 or 3 athlete in the league.

Sometimes that's all you need. Shaq was a horrible basketball player, but he was a physical monster. Once he learned to harness those gifts, he was unstoppable. Griffin is already a top 10-20 player, just by relying on his athleticism (ala V. Carter in his prime). Maybe he won't get better, but he'll still be a force to be reckoned with. He really just needs a mean streak and needs to start fighting back.

Duncan doesn't belong in the top five if we're going off of this season. The other 4 (Aldridge, Love, Griffin, Nowitzki) are all top 5, though I wouldn't have them in the order that he does. Davis is definitely top 5.

quote:Duncan doesn't belong in the top five if we're going off of this season. The other 4 (Aldridge, Love, Griffin, Nowitzki) are all top 5, though I wouldn't have them in the order that he does. Davis is definitely top 5.

Yeah, I think he is at least top 5. But he might be more of a Center than PF. Heck, if I was making a list, my #1 PF would be L. James. He plays that position quite a bit and is a total mismatch for anybody in the league.

Okay. Well you see I play with the pelicans. AD gets buckets. He is number 4 in MVP race. Nuggets wanted to trade me gallinari and Hickson for Eric Gordon and stietsma so I didn't think twice. We have went beast mode ever since. Evans starts the 2 now. Anything else?

He shot a career high FG% his second season, back when he apparently couldn't shoot from outside the lane and everyone knew it, yet somehow, since he has learned how to shoot (still absolutely a prayer) and diversified his game, his FG% has gone down. His usage rate was highest in (you guessed it) his rookie year.

I mean, where has he gotten better? His statistics that have improved haven't improved enough to show any real significance.

Here's a graph I just created that charts Blake Griffin's overall growth as a player from his rookie season to present.

quote:If you called the Clippers and offered them any of these players straight up for Griffin, they'd laugh at you.

Griffin has higher VALUE than those guys sure, but he's not a better player. All those guys I named can actually score in the post and aren't nonfactors who can't make free throws come playoffs. Further, if we are talking playoffs let the record show Z-Bo bitchmade Blake Griffin two straight years in the postseason - which makes him not top 5 IMO.

He shot more and for a higher percentage as a rookie. If he was getting 10 shots at the rim/game then, why is he taking jumpers now? And if he has developed a jumper, wouldn't that add to his ability to get to the rim? Before players only had to wait for him around the paint. If he developed a jumper, they'd have to respect him more.